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Madder
Rubia tinctorum
Rubia tinctorum, the common madder or dyer's madder, is a herbaceous perennial plant species belonging to the bedstraw and coffee family Rubiaceae.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Latin Herbal
1484 · p.253

Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.281

Herbarius
1485 · p.254

Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.251

Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.254

Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.376

Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.376

Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.377

Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.306

Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.377

Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.253

The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.115
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Rubia tinctorum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 362522.